The story of the Australian Gold Rush unfolds through the eyes of the beautiful housemaid Perfection Middleton, whose husband dies and leaves her in control of a vast estate in the outback.

River of the Sun

Literature & Fiction

Shaw, Patricia

British & Irish

St Martins Pr

The survivor of a shipwreck in which her parents are killed, Sibell Delahunty, a young British woman, struggles for love and security alone in the Australian outback during the 1870s

The Feather and the Stone

Escaping to her friend's 1850s Australian home after her ambitious father tries to marry her off, willful Laura Maskey dreams of romance with cattle ranch owner Paul MacNamara, until her father's death binds her destiny to that of another man

Where the Willows Weep

When Englishman Corby Morgan and his young bride, Jessie, arrive at their recently purchased sugar plantation in ninteenth-century Australia, they embark on a difficult and dangerous existence

Cry of the Rain Bird

Exploring the personal and cultural experiences that have shaped the creative output of one of Australia's foremost composers, this fascinating study begins in a Russian enclave in northern China, progresses through student days in Sydney and San Francisco, and culminates with Sitsky's present position as Professor of Composition at The Australian National University in Canberra. The many influences on his work, including important professional and personal relationships with such eminent persons as the poet Gwen Harwood and the violinist Jan Sedivka, are discussed in detail as are the sources of much of the inspiration for Sitsky's compositions, now numbering close to 200. Of interest to scholars, students, and anyone interested in 20th-century music.
In addition to presenting Sitsky's fascinating life story and expounding on the central position he has occupied for the past 40 years in Australia's musical culture, this important work provides for the first time comprehensive bibliographic references to all of Sitsky's compositions, his writing, his recordings, and his appearances as a pianist and lecturer on music. The book is a most valuable addition to any collection, for it is both a work of reference and a compelling story of the development of one of the most eclectic, visionary, and confronting artists of his generation.

Larry Sitsky: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)

Biographies & Memoirs

CAMPBELL, Peter

Holmes, Robyn F.

Arts & Literature

Greenwood

Drawing on the theoretical foundations laid out in earlier volumes of this series, this book describes an approach to organizational change and development that is informed by a complexity perspective. It clarifies the experience of being in the midst of change. Unlike many books that presume clarity of foresight or hindsight, the author focuses on the essential uncertainty of participating in evolving events as they happen and considers the creative possibilities of such participation. Most methodologies for organizational change are firmly rooted in systems thinking, as are many approaches to process consultation and facilitation. This book questions the suggestion that we can choose and design new futures for our organizations in the way we often hope. Avoiding the widely favoured use of two by two matrices, idealized schemas and simplified typologies that characterize much of the management literature on change, this book encourages the reader to live in the immediate paradoxes and complexities of organizational life, where we must act with intention into the unknowable. The author uses detailed reflective narrative to evoke and elaborate on the experience of participating in the conversational processes of human organizing. It asserts that possibilities are perpetually sustained and changed by the conversational life of organizations. This book will be valuable to consultants, managers and leaders, indeed all those who are dissatisfied with idealized models of change and are searching for ways to develop an effective change practice.

Changing Conversations in Organizations: A Complexity Approach to Change (Complexity and Emergence in Organizations)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Routledge

A Consultancy Approach for Trainers

Phillips, Keri

Job Hunting & Careers

Univ Assoc

The first edition of this book, published over ten years ago, accurately predicted the significance of the transition from trainer to consultant and from training to learning. And, as the role of trainers has changed, so the responsibility for development has expanded to involve managers at all levels within the organization. This Second Edition has been written to help you, whatever your particular responsibility as a trainer or developer, to plan your professional development. Using an original framework, the authors describe three approaches to consultancy designed to help you undertake increasingly complex assignments. With the support of case studies, they explain what each approach involves and illustrate the problems and opportunities the trainer is likely to face. A detailed self-development plan is contained in the appendices.

A Consultancy Approach for Trainers and Developers

Gower Pub.Co.

Waiting for the Thunder

Contemporary

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Headline Book Publishing

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